Reinforced valve body



M. D ELLEANI 4 2,208,180

REINFORCED VALVE BODY July 16, 194;

Filed May 16, 1938 Patented Jul 16, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE In Italy, May 21, 1%37 Application May 16, 1938, Serial No. 208,268

2 Claims. (or. 251-155) f The bodies of the valves and cocks in general are subjected to the pressure of the internal fluid and to mechanical stresses which cause deformations in the material constituting the body. Such deformation occurs in any valve body and more particularly, in those bodies which do not present spherical or ellipsoidal conformations, and in those bodies of valves or the like which are constituted of particularly yielding material.

Thedeformations cause displacements of the 16 seat or seats of the valve producing losses of tightness and the necessity of adjustments for the closing element with respect to the seat. Such adjustments while establishing good sealing conditions provide a condition wherein it is il necessary to exert excessive forces upon the elements for the operation of the sealing members to remove the same from the respective seats when it is desired to open the valve.

, The present invention eliminates the inconfl veniences mentioned above by the provision of stiffening elements for the body of the valve or the like constructed without ribs, such stiffening elements being mounted externally of the body itself and designed and intended to eliminate or I at) at least to cut down the displacements which occur in the body of the valve at points or parts so as to influence the position of the seat of the valve or equivalent element.

A further characteristic of the present inven- 38 tion resides in the fact that the reinforcing elements are so arranged that they prevent displacements of the valve seats, and permit variation of form due to vincreases 'in temperature of the fluid contained inside the body of the valve or the like.

The accompany drawing illustrates, by way of example only, a form of the invention applied to a slide valve.

Fig. 1 shows the body of the valve in external perspective view, Fig. 2 is a horizontal axial section thereof and Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the valve body taken in the direction of the arrow III, of Fig. 1. j

50 Referring more particularly to the embodiment illustrated, it will be seen that the body I of the slide valve is provided with a rectangular housing having smooth faces 2 and 3 which serve'to support, at the interior, the'seats 4 and The other smooth walls 8 and I serve to present, at the interior, the guides 8 and 9 for the gate.

In accordance with the invention, G-shaped stiffening elements [0 are applied and suitably distributed at the outside along the periphery of '5 the body I, the ends or heads ll of which elements engage with the walls 2 and 3 thus preventing or at least limiting to an admissible minimum the displacements that such walls may accomplish in the direction of the arrows 10 I2. The stiffening elements ID are each provided with an intermediate portion l3 included between the heads II, which portion is not in contact with the walls 6 and I of the valve body, and they preferably have a flattened shape so 16 that such portion l3 will present a large outwardly radiating surface. The internal edge I I of the portion ill will thus be spaced from the opposite surface of the wall of the valve body in order to allow the walls 6 and 1 toexpand in 20 the direction of the arrows l8.

The stiffening elements It] may be shrunk or hot fitted on the body I and they may be welded to it at 14, that is at the point where they engage the walls 2 and 3. As will be seen from Figs. 1 and 3, one or more of the stiffening elements It) may be prolonged beyond the extent necessary for the purpose indicated above, by means of extensions l5 reaching other elements of the valve body, such as for instance, the flanges I6 to which they may be welded. In this 1 manner the stress which must be undergone by of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

Having particularly described and ascertained the nature of the present invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:

1. In a valve, a. valve body having an opening forthe passage of liquid therethrough, a valve seat adapted to be engaged by a slide valve member for closing said opening, a housing carried by the body in which the slide valve member may be retracted from said opening, said housinz having grooves for guiding said slide valve memher, a reinforcing element extending across the housing acijaoent the valve seat in the direction in which liquiol may move through the body, and said reinforcing element being attached at the ends thereof to end walls of the housing and spaced from the side Wall of the housing so as to prevent displacement of the valve seat with respect to the valve slide.

2. In a valve, a valve body having an opening for the passage of liquid tiierethrougii, a valve seat adapted to be engaged by a, slide valve membar for closing said opening, a housing eemieol by the body iii-Which the slide valve member may tion in which liquid may move through the valve body, the ends of said reinforcing members engaging walls said housing so as to prevent displacement of the valve seat with respect to the valve slide, and portions of said -shaped members intermediate said ends being spaced g from the side walls of the housing.

MAURIZIU BELLEENI. 

